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Download or read book Remembering Lake Tahoe written by and published by Remembering. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I thought it must be the fairest picture the whole earth affords," wrote Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe. Countless other visitors have agreed, and since the turn of the century the lake's clear, pure waters and breathtaking natural surroundings have made it a national treasure and an international vacation destination. As one of the deepest and largest of alpine lakes in the United States and the world, Lake Tahoe is said to be one of the most photographed spots on earth. With a selection of fine historic images from her best-selling book Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe, Ellen Drewes provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Lake Tahoe and its environs. In the clarity and vivid detail of black-and-white photography, Remembering Lake Tahoe showcases more than 100 images and one hundred years of the lake and its surroundings, along with the people, places, and events that have shaped its unique history. Journey with researcher and writer Ellen Drewes as she visits the remarkable past of this scintillating American hideaway.
Book Synopsis Childhood Memories of Summers at Lake Tahoe by : Peter Sinton
Download or read book Childhood Memories of Summers at Lake Tahoe written by Peter Sinton and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake Tahoe written by Crescent Books and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 arresting full-color photographs explore the beauty and appeal of one of America's foremost resorts.
Download or read book Tahoe Memories written by John Zeazeas and published by John Zeazeas. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences of living in North Lake Tahoe; exploring outback and not-so-outback places in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and unique places in nearby Nevada. Book is 84 pages and contains 130 images in color.
Book Synopsis Daily Travel Journal Lake Tahoe by : People Matter
Download or read book Daily Travel Journal Lake Tahoe written by People Matter and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories are made in an instant, but can last a lifetime. This journal will enrich your experience and ensure that your memories last forever, and pass down to your loved ones. Every day is spread over two pages: one lined, one blank. Tell the world about your day on the lined page, and attach anything that tickles your fancy - interesting mementos, pictures, drawings, maps or the like - on the blank page. At 6 by 9 inches (A5 sized) and 120 pages, this journal will not take up much of your valuable luggage space, but the memories it will create are priceless, and there is something satisfyingly old-school about writing down your memories with paper and pen. Size: 6 x 9 inches Cover: Soft, Matte Inside: Lined paper (ruled on one side, blank on the other), 120 pages, with some helpful, minimal prompts at the start of each day.
Book Synopsis Tahoe Live Love Lake: a Guest Book by : Calpine Books
Download or read book Tahoe Live Love Lake: a Guest Book written by Calpine Books and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lake Guest Book: Perfect for remembering all of the wonderful times with family and friends. Leave recommendations and look back on your favorite memories from past years. 8.25x8.25 in. Each page includes: Guest Names, Traveling from, Dates of Stay, Favorite Memories from Visit, Things I Would Recommend
Book Synopsis A Short History of Lake Tahoe by : Michael J. Makley
Download or read book A Short History of Lake Tahoe written by Michael J. Makley and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Tahoe is one of the scenic wonders of the American West, a sapphire jewel that attracts millions of visitors each year. But the lake drew Native Americans to its summer shores for millennia, as well as more recent fortune hunters, scientists, and others. A Short History of Lake Tahoe recounts the long, fascinating history of Lake Tahoe. Author Michael J. Makley examines the geology and natural history of the lake and introduces the people who shaped its history, including the Washoe Indians and such colorful characters as Mark Twain and legendary teamster Hank Monk, and later figures like entertainer Frank Sinatra and Olympic skier Julia Mancuso. He also covers the development of the lake's surrounding valley, including the impacts of mining, logging, and tourism, and the economic, political, and social controversies regarding the use and misuse of the lake's resources. Generously illustrated with historic photographs, this book is an engaging introduction to one of the most magnificent sites in the world. It also illuminates the challenges of protecting natural beauty and a fragile environment while preserving public access and a viable economy in the surrounding communities.
Book Synopsis Lake Tahoe Through Time by : Carol A. Jensen
Download or read book Lake Tahoe Through Time written by Carol A. Jensen and published by America Through Time. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional and amateur photographers have captured images of Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, since the invention of the camera. In this photographic journal, we experience the transformation of Lake Tahoe from a Washoe paradise, to a timber resource for the Comstock Lode, and finally to a land of private retreats and hostelries. Herein we experience the environmental, business, and economic changes in the Tahoe Basin through time. Redefinition of the D. L. Bliss family business from timber and forest products to hostelry economically transformed Lake Tahoe. Investments in the Tahoe Tavern, Steamer SS Tahoe, modern rail service, and marketing to affluent San Francisco clientele reshaped the economy. Millions discovered the alpine air, pristine blue waters, and good times that Tahoe offers. Today, visitors still carry cameras and vow to visit again next year.
Book Synopsis The Ghosts of Lake Tahoe (the Stuff of Legends) by : Patrick Betson
Download or read book The Ghosts of Lake Tahoe (the Stuff of Legends) written by Patrick Betson and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you love folklore you will find Betson's stories riveting. Author Patrick Betson is a storyteller make no mistake about it." Tahoe Daily Tribune/Tahoe World. "Legends, tall tales and true accounts blend into a delightful read in Patrick Betson's "The Ghosts of Lake Tahoe: The Stuff of Legends." The Tahoe Weekly. "It's a great read for any history buff or Lake Tahoe fan, a great vacation book." The Nevada Magazine "A colorful and rumbustious saga, Patrick's enthusiasm for Lake Tahoe is infectious" Southend Evening Echo In a timeline of 150 years, here Patrick Betson brings together twelve stories, some remembered and some long forgotten, of some of the most colorful characters whoever crossed the western mountains reflected in the history of America's most glorious lake. The bravest of all the Pony Express riders, the ex-riverboat pilot who became a reporter and a giant of American literature, a Chinese migrant who risked life and limb to build a railroad, a tale of stock manipulation and murder that stemmed from a discovery of a Tahoe whirlpool, a salty seafarer who battled the worst of Tahoe's weather and gangrene, the silent terror that caused fear to the local lumber-jacks, the incorrigible stagecoach driver that gave a nineteenth-century icon a ride he wanted to forget, a refugee from the San Francisco earthquake who became an aquatic marvel, the famous of Hollywood's Golden Age that came to play, the overly optimistic New York lawyer who had an impossible dream that came true, and the unpaid Norwegian who flew down mountains delivering the US Mail. Tahoe is a meeting place, where the mountains meet the sky, where the snow meets the clear blue waters and where Nevada meets California. This book humbly brings you the stories of the men Sam Walter Foss might have alluded to when he said, "Bring me men to match my mountains." Well here they are Sam, some of Tahoe's finest, The Ghosts of Lake Tahoe (The Stuff of Legends.) Patrick Betson
Download or read book Remembering the Centennial written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe by : Ellen Drewes
Download or read book Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe written by Ellen Drewes and published by Turner. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I thought it must be the fairest picture the whole earth affords,” wrote Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe. Countless other visitors have agreed, and since the turn of the century the lake’s clear, pure waters and breathtaking natural surroundings have made it a national treasure and an international vacation destination. As one of the deepest and largest of alpine lakes in the United States and the world, Lake Tahoe is said to be one of the most photographed spots on earth. In the clarity and vivid detail of black-and-white photography, Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe showcases nearly 200 images and two centuries of the lake and its surroundings, along with the people, places, and events that have shaped its unique history. Journey with researcher and writer Ellen Drewes as she visits the remarkable past of this scintillating American hideaway.
Download or read book Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I thought it must be the fairest picture the whole earth affords,” wrote Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe. Countless other visitors have agreed, and since the turn of the century the lake’s clear, pure waters and breathtaking natural surroundings have made it a national treasure and an international vacation destination. As one of the deepest and largest of alpine lakes in the United States and the world, Lake Tahoe is said to be one of the most photographed spots on earth. In the clarity and vivid detail of black-and-white photography, Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe showcases nearly 200 images and two centuries of the lake and its surroundings, along with the people, places, and events that have shaped its unique history. Journey with researcher and writer Ellen Drewes as she visits the remarkable past of this scintillating American hideaway.
Book Synopsis A Wall of White by : Jennifer Woodlief
Download or read book A Wall of White written by Jennifer Woodlief and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most amazing survival stories ever told -- journalist Jennifer Woodlief's gripping account of the deadliest ski-area avalanche in North American history and the woman who survived in the face of incalculable odds. On the morning of March 31, 1982, the snow had already been falling at a record rate for four days at Alpine Meadows ski resort near Lake Tahoe, California. For the vacationers and employees at the resort, this day would change their lives forever. The unprecedented avalanche that day at Alpine Meadows was a once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe. Much like the nor'easter that bedeviled the fishermen in Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, an unforeseeable confluence of natural events created the conditions for an unimaginable disaster -- and, in one woman's case, an astonishing ordeal of survival. Jennifer Woodlief movingly tells the story of the massive slab avalanche that killed seven and left one victim buried alive under the snow. In this freak event, millions of tons of snow roared into the ski area and beyond, engulfing unsuspecting vacationers as well as resort employees working in spite of the danger. At the center of this wrenching tale of nature's fury are ski patrolman Larry Heywood and his team, who heroically fought with the help of a search-and-rescue dog to save a twenty-two-year-old woman trapped for five days underneath the suffocating snow -- a tale of survival that is itself an exploration of the capacity of courage. Written with all the suspense of a thriller, A Wall of White is an inspiring story of a group of strangers brought together by an inconceivable calamity -- a testament to the unwavering dedication of a band of rebel rescuers, driven only by a commitment to saving lives, battling not just extreme conditions but seemingly impossible odds.
Book Synopsis What Shall We Do Tomorrow at Lake Tahoe by : Ellie Huggins
Download or read book What Shall We Do Tomorrow at Lake Tahoe written by Ellie Huggins and published by . This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake Tahoe written by Sara Larson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Tahoe has hosted a variety of visitors and residents through the years, from the early days of Washoe settlements, to rough logging camps, to today's extravagant resorts. When early settlers arrived after John C. Fremont's 1844 expedition, they would come by train to Truckee and then by wagon or narrow-gauge rail to Tahoe City. Over time, majestic resorts began to dot the lakeshore, such as the Tahoe Tavern, which included a ski hill, golf course, stables, movie theater, and bowling alley. Summer residents often extended their stays, until many lived here year-round. The lake gained fame during the 1960 Winter Olympics, and fast growth followed in these sleepy mountain towns.
Book Synopsis Haunted Lake Tahoe by : Janice Oberding
Download or read book Haunted Lake Tahoe written by Janice Oberding and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Tahoe's natural splendor conceals its haunted history. Locals say the ghosts of the Donner Party haunt their doomed campsite in the Sierras. Wealthy recluse George Whittell is said to have never left his beloved Thunderbird Lodge, though he died in 1969. The ghosts of Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and members of the Rat Pack are thought to gallivant in the showroom and cabins of the Cal Neva Lodge, a popular celebrity retreat. Prisoners from the past may remain in the old Truckee Jail, and the restless spirit of a murdered showgirl might linger in the Tahoe Biltmore. Travel back to Tahoe's golden age and explore where glamour meets ghoul with the queen of haunted Nevada, Janice Oberding.
Book Synopsis Saving Lake Tahoe by : Michael J. Makley
Download or read book Saving Lake Tahoe written by Michael J. Makley and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Lake Tahoe begins with the Washoe Indians who resided on its shores for thousands of years, with minimal impact on the landscape. The relatively brief American history at Lake Tahoe began in the mid-nineteenth century. Though awestruck by its beauty, the new arrivals were also intent on harvesting its abundant resources. In a mere half century, the basin’s forests and fisheries were destroyed, the lake’s pristine clarity dramatically reduced. Left alone, nature healed itself, and by the 1960s mature forests once again surrounded the lake and its water clarity improved, with visibility more than one hundred feet deep. However, Tahoe’s wonders brought a new kind of threat: millions of annual visitors and incessant development, including ski resorts and casinos. Saving Lake Tahoe looks at the interaction through the years between human activities and Tahoe’s natural ecosystems. It is a dramatic story of ecological disasters and near misses, political successes and failures. Utilizing primary sources and interviews with key figures, Makley provides a meticulously researched account of the battles surrounding the management of the Tahoe basin. Makley takes the story up to the present, describing the formation and evolution of a new type of governing body, the bistate Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and groundbreaking efforts to utilize science in establishing policy. He depicts the passionate fights between those who seek to preserve the environment and advocates of individual property rights. Although Tahoe remains unique in its splendor, readers will understand why, with continued pressure for development, reversing environmental deterioration and improving the lake water’s clarity remain elusive goals.
